Senior Engineering Manager (Product)

Join Duolingo, the leading language learning platform, as a Senior Engineering Manager. In this role, you will lead a team of engineers focused on improving the core learning experience and driving monetization efforts. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, drive project execution, and foster a high-performing team culture. Enjoy a range of benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, mental health support, paid parental leave, and more.

About Duolingo

Attract, grow, and retain diverse engineering talent; provide clear expectations, coaching, and career development, and build a healthy, inclusive team culture.

Responsibilities

• Co-lead a cross-functional team with partners in product management, aligning on strategy, priorities, and success metrics for features that drive meaningful user impact.
• Drive execution of projects from spec to implementation, experimentation/analysis, and ongoing ownership, while ensuring infrastructure reliability, scalability, and observability.
• Strong product instincts and comfort in highly experimental, data‑driven environments; experience defining metrics and running A/B tests with analytics or data science partners

Requirements

• Experience leading, managing, and building a team of software engineers, with demonstrated ability to hire, develop, and retain talent
• Technical depth sufficient to guide architecture and implementation trade‑offs, evolve quality standards, and mentor engineers on best practices
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
• A track record of shipping multi-engineer, multi-week+ projects with measurable business impact, balancing speed and quality
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across engineering, product, design, and data; clear written specs and status updates
• The ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY
• Experience leading cross-functional teams focused on driving core product outcomes in consumer products
• Experience setting team OKRs and operating cadences that consistently deliver outsized impact on company‑level metrics

Preferred

• Background dealing with ambiguity and managing teams or projects with broad cross-functional scope

Pay

USD 204,000 - 306,000